Today’s radio choice Charlotte Runcie

The Reunion RADIO 4, 11AM

In this episode, Kirsty Wark brings together some of the people involved in responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in April 2010, which coated more than 1,000 miles of American coastline in crude oil. Wark hears from Mark Mazzella, BP’s well-control expert who fought to stop the oil flow; Admiral Thad Allen, who co-ordinated the US federal response; Keith Jones, whose son Gordon worked on the rig and was killed in the accident; and Bob Kaluza, one of two BP supervisors on the rig that night.

Music for Monarchy with Debbie Wiseman

CLASSIC FM, 9PM

Debbie Wiseman, Classic FM’s composer-inresidence, celebrates music that evokes a sense of royalty, including anthems used for coronations as well as less famous works composed in honour of monarchs. Wiseman begins in 1727 when Handel’s Zadok the Priest was first performed at the coronation of George II, and explores the history of the title Master of the King’s Musick, before presenting a new composition of her own in honour of George III, introduced by Hollywood royalty (and erstwhile screen Henry VIII), Damian Lewis.